Musician

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I've never been an optimist.

Action is the antidote to despair.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.

Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera.